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30.09.2021 |
Europe’s plight highlights the energy supply crisis that’s gripping the world as countries emerge from the pandemic. Demand for oil, gas and electricity is surging, while coal is making a comeback, driven in part by China. The fuel’s resurgence, and countries’ recent dependence on it to keep their economies running, makes critical climate talks much more complicated with the COP26 meeting just weeks away.
European utilities are in desperate need to get their hands on more coal, a strategist at one European utility said, asking not to be identified. But Russia, the world’s third-biggest exporter of the fuel, is mainly targeting sales to the largest buyers in Asia.
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Sweden has fires up an oil power plant that burns 140 000 litres of oil EVERY HOUR.
Sweden’s oil power plant starts up due to record-high electricity prices
The reason is that electricity prices have been at record high levels for several weeks, not just in Sweden but across Europe.
“Thanks to the enormously high prices, we have started up the Karlshamn plant on a ‘price signal,” said Henrik Svensson, site manager at the plant.
This is despite the fact that there is no shortage of electricity in southern Sweden.
Energy company Uniper, which runs the Karlshamn power plant...
Its largest shareholder is the Finnish energy company Fortum with a 75.01% stake.The company has faced criticism for opening new coal fueled power plants in Germany as recently as May 2020.